and said that mandela is comfortable and under good care. mandela is undergoing tests but the south african public is not being told what those tests are and what his condition is. he was flown yesterday, saturday from his rural home in the eastern cape region to victoria, this is a two-hour flight and understandably doctors must have felt that he needed some sort of treatment at this hospital. so south africans still waiting for news and understandably, he's very loved in this country. >> one is never willing to let go and say goodbye. so yeah, we wish him good health, continued good health. >> i think he was the hope of our future and for him to be ill now, we understand that he has had a lot of stress in his life and it's very saddening. be we all do love him. he was the hope of our future. >> reporter: so as mandela spends another night in hospital, it's unclear when he will leave and if shorts will give anymore information on his condition. allison? >> and this programming note, cnn's soledad o'brien provides provocative information abo